News archive from 15 June 2013

BERLIN A top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according...

WASHINGTON The House overwhelmingly passed a sweeping, $638 billion defense bill on Friday that imposes new punishments on members of the armed services found guilty of rape or sexual assault as outrage over the crisis in the military has galvanized...

Battle Creek  Mark Evan Auk couldn't have picked a better time to do what he does best. Auk led off the bottom of the sixth with a bunt single and later scored on Nicholas Azar's sacrifice fly to give Grosse Pointe Woods University Liggett a 1-0...

NEW SOFTWARE: Microsoft is making a pared-down version of its Office software package available on the iPhone.
MISSING: The company is holding out on extending that to the iPad and Android devices. It's trying to boost tablet computers running its own...

High on a hillside overlooking the azure sea on a small Mediterranean island, two brawny men toil under the sun in a vineyard that has just released a 50-euro ($66) wine destined for the tables of top restaurants.
This is not an exclusive wine estate...

Zack Wheeler will follow Matt Harvey to the Mets, and the prized prospect officially will follow the team’s current ace in his major-league debut.
Terry Collins announced Friday that Harvey will start the first game and Wheeler the second in the Mets’...

slideshow All his life, Eli Thomas Malone never mixed up a name or forgot a face, his friends say.
Although he was a faculty member at Jacksonville High School for more than 30 years, Malone, who died last week at age 81, seemed to make a personal...

slideshow Cleburne County Commissioner Emmett Owen acknowledged Friday he may have broken some rules as an employer in the county’s inmate work release program. But, he says, it’s only because he didn’t know the rules.
The county is cooperating with...

slideshow State Sen. Del Marsh, R-Anniston, will seek another term in 2014, his spokesman acknowledged Thursday.
“He is seeking re-election,” said Derek Trotter, an aide to the senator. Asked if the senator would hold a large campaign launch event at...

SAN ANTONIO -- Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said Friday he is concerned about the ongoing struggles of guard Manu Ginobili.
&#x201C;Of course I am,&#x201D; he said. &#x201C;He's having a tough playoffs. He hasn't found a rhythm or found his...

WEST ALLIS, Wis. -- Graham Rahal thought teaming up with his father would lead to a breakthrough IndyCar season.
Instead, he's been stymied by his inability to adapt to the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing setups and put together performances he...

Superstar Beyoncé has made peace with a Manhattan video game developer that sued her for $100 million after she backed out of a deal to make an interactive game with them.
The terms of the deal were not disclosed and lawyers for both sides did not...